Byron

Went hear for a spot of cheeky lunch during a nice day out in Kingston with a friend, and I’ve been to Byron quite a few times in Central London was very intrigued to actually see a branch in the burbs!
Well, usually I opt for the same normal burger, onion rings, mushrooms, shit load of cheese and chipotle mayo as I like to make my own, but I opted to try the Chilli burger, which was divine. One of the hot food fans I must admit. The staff where very attentive and keen to know what our feedback was and made the meal even more enjoyable!

Probably the best burger in town, but for some reason this branch isn’t as good as the city branch.
Meat wasn’t medium, more like well done, guacamole & tortilla chips kinda like what u get from the supermarket & the onion rings were too oily. It seems like Kingston uses different ingredients. Still ok, but only ok.

Very overrated. The bun is the weak point and I very much prefer GBK’s burger.

I’d been meaning to come here ever since I read about Byron serving the best burgers in London. What I got was a burger which was merely decent.
I’d ordered a Byron burger (burger with cheddar and bacon served with Byron sauce) and really liked the sauce. What could have been done better, though, was having a choice about how the patty was to be cooked (they serve it medium and only medium here) and the bacon could have been fried to crisp perfection before being served. The burger comes with a side of either salad or fries. I opted for the former, and was surprised by how generous the serving was.
The quesadillas we’d ordered for starters were quite nice. My only complaint is that we ate these far too quickly, what with one serving of six portions between four of us!
While service was generally friendly, it was also rather slow. It took some time for our burgers to be served despite the fact that the restaurant was more than half empty the time we were there.
With a rival burger shop just down the road, and given that that particular shop tends to have special promotions (one does need to stretch one’s pound after all), I’m not sure whether I’ll return to the Kingston branch any time soon. I may go to another one — perhaps the Soho one when it opens — in case it was just peculiar to this branch though.